First aid

If you are checking this webpage while your colleague bleeds out, you are doing it wrong

February 12, 2019 — October 22, 2021

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Things I forget. The body that meets regularly and prepares resuscitation advice: ILCOR, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation.

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1 Resources

Red Cross classes on first aid and disaster preparedness.

2 Psychological first aid

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I am now into the idea of learning psychological first aid as well, having spent lockdown with various individuals battling mental illness, which was not fun. COVID psychological first aid course.

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3 Is superglue actually appropriate for wounds?

Kinda; the cheap off-the-shelf methyl-2-cyanoacrylate or ethyl-2-cyanoacrylate is not ideal because it releases heat, cyanoacetate, and formaldehyde while setting. Specialised medical glues are preferred: n-butyl cyanoacrylate, 2-octyl cyanoacrylate. There are a lot of contraindications; basically, it sounds appropriate for clean cuts but not so much dirty or messy wounds.

4 References

Pek. 2017. “Guidelines for Bystander First Aid 2016.” Singapore Medical Journal.
Zideman, Singletary, De Buck, et al. 2015. “Part 9: First Aid: 2015 International Consensus on First Aid Science with Treatment Recommendations.” Resuscitation, European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015,.